Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday to watch the cricket World Cup semifinal between their rival countries.
The two men were seated in the VIP box for the national anthems before heading on to the pitch at the Mohali stadium in northwest India to shake hands with players from both sides.
The last time a top Pakistani leader visited India was in 2001, when the then president, military ruler Pervez Musharraf, came to India for a landmark summit that ended in acrimony.
Singh invited Gilani to watch the match with him last week in a move dubbed "cricket diplomacy."
It is an attempt to warm up relations at a time when the countries are tentatively getting their peace process back on track.
India broke off official contacts with Islamabad in 2008 after the Mumbai attacks, which India blamed on Pakistani militants who wrought carnage in the city over three days, killing 166 people.
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